Buckle



(No Model.) l Y G. W. MOORES.

BUCKLE.

No. 489,656. Patented Jan. 10, 1893.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,656, dated January10, 1893.

Application tiled September 13, 1892. Serial No. 445,780. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MooEEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofLouisiana, have invented a new and useful Buckle, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to buckles for use on harness and other purposesWhere found applicable, and the object thereof is to provide a buckle ofrigid form throughout, and wherein a pivoted or loose tongue isdispensed with and adapted to connect the contiguous ends of differentdevices or the parts of a single device to form loops Jfor the purposeof adjustment, and with this object in view the invention consists ofthe construction and arrangement of the parts as will be hereinaftermore fully described and claimed.

In the drawingsz-Figure lis a perspective view of the improved buckleshown applied. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the buckle detached.

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor'- responding parts in theseveral views of the drawings.

Referring` to the drawings, the numerals l and 2 Adesignate theoppositely-situated loops to provide a frame of substantial S-shape. Theloops are each provided with a side throat 3, oppositely arranged oneach side of a central connecting bar 4. The ends of the frameterminating at, and forming one side wall for each of said throats 3,are struck or extended downward to form guards 5, and the bar 4 isdepressed below the under side of the buckle which produces guards 6.The guards and 6 prevent accidental disengagement of the strap from thebuckle in a lateral direction. Oentrally rising from the bar 4 is a studor post 7 that is engaged by an opening in the strap to preventlongitudinal disengagement of the latter and to provide for a firm andsecure detention of the said strap when mounted in connection with thebuckle.

It will be understood that the strap ma;l beI vquickly and readilypassed :into the buckle through the oppositely-disposed throats 3, andowing to the depressed form of the bar 4 the edges of the strap arebrought to bear against the frame and thereby held in position.

The buckle may be constructed of any suitable material and be suitablyornamented.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:-A

As an improved article of manufacture, a buckle having a frame ofsubstantial S-shaped form to provide opposite loops l and 2 and withthroats therein arranged in opposite sides of the said loops, and acentral depressed connecting-bar having a stud or post rising centrallytherefrom in a Vertical direction,the opposite ends of said bar beingextended and connecting with the under side of the frame at the pointswhere the said throats are formed, and the free ends of the frame beingbent downwardly parallel with the upwardly-extended ends ot' thedepressed bar and terminating in ahorizontal plane parallel with theunder side of the said depressed bar, said downwardly-bent ends of theframe and the upwardly-extended ends of the bar forming side guards andthe downwardly-bent ends of the frame forming with said guards theopposite Walls of the throats, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W'. MOORES.

W'itnesses:

CHAs. M. HERO, JNO. J. WARD.

